I'm waiting for the mw3 trial to download and really want to play some skyrim.

Anyway to make it so the download doesen't pause?

DoubleD

02-16-2012, 02:46 PM

Yes you can pause the download. When ready it will begin where you left off.

NoBridges

02-16-2012, 02:51 PM

Just alt tab out of skyrim, right click MW3 and select pause, then right click again and select resume. Alt tab back into skyrim.

Kendo

02-16-2012, 02:53 PM

he doesnt want it to pause

DoubleD

02-16-2012, 02:55 PM

he doesnt want it to pause

Oops your right. OP did a quick edit.

bluz74

02-16-2012, 02:55 PM

Steam pauses downloads upon launching a game in order to prevent interference with connection quality that the game may need.

If you wish to bypass this feature, press Alt+Tab (or Command+Tab for Mac users) to minimize the game and return to the Steam client.

Under the Library tab, select Downloads from the drop-down menu and click the "Resume All" button. This will have all downloads continue downloading.

[NOTE: If you wish to only continue an individual download, you may click the Resume button for that title located in the bottom right-hand corner of the title's download bar.] (https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2606-RSDG-1296)

Anarchisteve

02-16-2012, 03:13 PM

Skyrim has a very useful (in this situation, anyway) splash screen. When that comes up you can unpause the download(s) before starting the game proper.